On Pyrrus, the deadliest planet ever colonized, everything wants you dead. The plants are poisonous, the animals are lethal, and even the weather conspires to kill. Humans survive only through endless war against their own world.
Jason dinAlt, a gambler with extraordinary psychic gifts, arrives with a fortune won through dubious means. Dismissed as a weak offworlder by a society that worships strength above all else, he must prove himself in a place where the weak die young. But Jason soon discovers a secret buried deep within the planet's murderous wilderness—one that could change everything.